Spaceballs 2 has over 40 years of new Star Wars content to work with and has a golden opportunity to make the film's best joke even better. Parody movies are making a surprising comeback in the 2020s.

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Look, it’s hard to picture a century-old Mel Brooks playing the Yoda-spoofing character Yogurt again without smiling. When 100 years old you reach, be this funny you will not, hm? That was the ...

Several members of the royal court, and the rabbi, look up into the sky, concerned, in Spaceballs Image via Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Mel Brooks is one of our funniest creatives out there. With movies like ...

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*Nearly four decades after Mel Brooks co-wrote, produced, and directed “Spaceballs,” the beloved 1987 MGM space opera parody that took aim at “Star Wars,” “Star Trek,” “Alien,” “The Wizard of Oz,” and ...

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A cinematic obsessive with the filmic palate of a starving raccoon, Rob London will watch pretty much anything once. With a mind like a steel trap, he's an endless fount of movie and TV trivia, borne ...

Tim has won over 25 screenwriting awards, including Best Original Screenplay and Best Horror Feature Screenplay, with his work being hailed as "complex, layered, and bloodcurdling." He wrote the 2014 ...

A casual viewer might assume that if you've seen one alien movie, you've seen them all. But that couldn't be further from the truth, as filmmakers throughout cinematic history have used these ...

The Schwartz will be with us again. Limited time: Save 25% on NBC News subscription Get exclusive reporting, live Q&As and ad-free reading. Mel Brooks will reprise his “Spaceballs” role as Yogurt in ...